Skip to main content

Standard 8

Reflection

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Standard 1 Reflection

Standard 1 of Seattle Pacific University's Standards for Teacher Leadership states that teacher leaders “model ethical and moral behavior”.  The class EDU 6085 was one class that focused specifically on this standard.   Below is a reflection from reading “The Charged Classroom” by Judith Pace that demonstrates my understanding related to this standard.    When considering “The Charged Classroom”, Judith Pace is primarily referring to the many challenges that both teachers and students face when encountering differences or potentially uncomfortable conversations within the classroom.  Many factors can contribute to a “charged” classroom, such as academic rigor and pressures that both teachers and students face, opportunities for discussion around conflicting viewpoints, or communicating academic standards and results.  While Pace highlights the many difficulties that can accompany a “charged” classroom, it is evident that such is unavoidable and can c...
Post a Comment
Read more

Standard 12 Reflection

Standard 12 for Seattle Pacific University's Teacher Leadership Standards states that teacher leaders "evaluate and use technology for teaching and learning".  The class EDTC 6433, Teaching with Technology, was a great learning tool to move forward in this standard.  Technology is something that has been a passion of mine since before becoming a teacher.  It seemed so natural to me to integrate technology into my classroom practices in order to get the most out of instructional times.  Where this class helped me the most, however, is thinking about leveraging technology for our entire school building, our communities, and in working with teachers who aren't as comfortable with technology.  While I think the entire "Teaching with Technology" blog page demonstrates various aspects of this standard ( linked here ), I think both reflection #3 and reflection #5 highlight key understandings from the course related to the standard.  These two subjects, digital...
Post a Comment
Read more

Survey of Instructional Strategies- Reflection

Over the course of this quarter, my confidence in using and naming instructional strategies has drastically increased.   While I already had knowledge of many of these strategies under my belt prior to taking this course and used them frequently, I was not in a position to effectively teach them to others or even collect data on them within my own teaching.   One of the most powerful pieces to my learning in this course was being able to put a name to the strategies that I’ve previously found successful within my own teaching.   With now having the increased knowledge of names of instructional strategies, areas in lessons and units that they are most effective, and an ability to take data of them, I am able to have meaningful conversations with other educators.   I also have more tools for my teacher leader “toolkit” as far as guiding teachers to effective, research based strategies that help further student learning.   In addition to the deep dive in...
Post a Comment
Read more